Only reason I managed to get everyone on Signal was because… uhh… Skype shut down. Yes, we used it to the end.
I saw my mom’s Signal today… Only me 😅
I’m actually surprised by how easily I was able to get my whole family and several friends on there, it’s my main messaging platform now. The only others are sms and steam chat.
Your communications can’t be compromised if you don’t communicate lol
you’re not ungrateful and deceitful
so meta
Supreme privacy. Two can only keep a secret if one of them is dead.
Maybe all your contacts also value their privacy and therefore have not set signal to allow them to be discovered by their phone number
If that’s the case, then i would be more happier to get their usernames atleast. But the situation is way worse than that. They are deeply into whatsapp.
Guilty
I have notifications on when someone joins and maybe 75% of the time after I see the notification their account is “deleted” because they changed the privacy settings.
It’s not the end of the world but I do wish more people wouldn’t automatically pick the maximum privacy setting so that we could actually, yknow use it
I have a handful of friends and family that did actually switch, but I still have a few stubborn friends on Discord that do t see the point. Just waiting for Discord to fuck up badly enough…
Discord not even letting me to creare an account. The OTP never get generated. And i believe that’s for good.
Many open-source developers also effectively using discord as a communication medium.
I have 1 friend who I talk to exclusively over discord DMs.
The server went down for about 6 hours when we were chatting and he made a signal account.
Then he deleted it after the outage 😭
Discord is already a haven for groomers, zoosadists, and more. Not sure what levels of “fucking up” they’d need to do, to get normies to bail.
So one’s friends become zoosadists - whatever that is - if they’re chatting via discord?
The argument that there’s creeps using a platform is moot if you’re using it to communicate with your friends. Which is what people do. It’s so weird to me, like, the same can be said about Signal etc etc but nooooo, there it’s only the good ones chatting. Get outta here with this shit.
They dont know about any of that stuff and they don’t wander in the public spaces of discord. I think forcing the ID on all users will do the trick. They just haven’t enforced it yet.
they don’t wander in the public spaces of discord
Which is very wise.
I use Discord for work, and I use it only to communicate with specific people about specific things. Absolutely no need to go exploring whatever drek inhabits the rest of the service.
For as long as they type a message, hit send, and the other person receives, they’ll keep on using it no matter what Users are stubborn to change, they only really do when they can’t do the basic thing
All the more motivation to encourage your friends to get on signal. I’ve had a discussion this week with someone, on fedi, who just can’t conceive of getting off Meta products, like WhatSapp, because it has so much usage in Europe. Our work isn’t done; not yet.
That person doesn’t need to leave WhatsApp completely right away. They can just talk to some people on Signal and others on WhatsApp.
It’s very hard to convince people to switch to privacy foucused platforms nowadays.
Generally that’s not been my experience. Person to Person it’s been pretty easy for the most part. I can think of one exception from the past decade, one of those “I just can’t start using another app” sorts. YMMV. Persistence furthers.
I have a Matrix server hosted with tons of cool plugins, bots, and settings to get it as close to Discord as possible. Can’t get anyone to use it lol. Don’t care. I’ll continue to pay for it for when we truly need it.
Tell us about the plugins and bots. Does it all work with encryption?
I’m sure there are gaps in it, but the chat itself is encrypted. It’s still in flux before I try to get folks active in it, so I’m trialing a bunch of Maubot tools. It has URL previews, gifs—basic stuff.
What I want out of a Discord-a-like:
- Screen sharing / game sharing
- Voice chat
- Text chat
- Video chat (voice + camera)
Do your bots and plugins make that possible?
There’s a CLI which is nice. I use it to communicate with my self-hosted personal assistant, while I’m on the go.
By “self-hosted personal assistant” you mean LLM?
No.
You mean a secretary who lives at your house?
The hay day of PDAs must have been really confusing for you.
I’m not sure what public displays of affection have to do with anything.
I was not alive for this
Official CLI or a third party client?
third party https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli
Cool!
I’ve been using Telegram for such notifications just because is actually seems to support them. This seems like it will do what I need!
Success!
I completely ditched WhatsApp, I have more than 20 contacts on Signal including my parents (70+) and my work chat of 8 people. I live in Germany where people tend to be very privacy focused, but we are getting there!
Wish more in my circle would embrace Signal. iMessage and WhatsApp are the default messaging apps. Of the three, Signal is far better imo
Same 😥
